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== Links to check ==
 
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# [[Question: How do we reconcile the actual age of the earth to the "seven thousand years of its continuance" mentioned in D&C 77:6?]]
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# [[Question: Can Latter-day Saints have a non-literal view of the creation story, or have a somewhat more mythic view of the first five books of Moses given the Church's teaching of a historical Adam?]]
# [[Source:Brigham Young:JD 14:116:whether the Lord...made the earth in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation]]
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# [[Question: What is the Church's position on Adam and Eve?]]
# [[Source:John S. Lewis:Interpreter 8:71:Considering that Doctrine and Covenants 77:6 refers to “…this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance, or its temporal existence,” what led Phelps to speak of Earth as 2,555 million years old?]]
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# [[Source:First Presidency statement:1931:Leave geology, biology, archaeology and anthropology, no one of which has to do with the salvation of the souls of mankind, to scientific research]]
# [[Source:Improvement Era 1909 regards an ancient earth as consistent with scripture]]
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# [[Question: How does the Church explain the existence of human-like beings on the earth prior to Adam?]]
# [[Source: John A. Widtsoe in ''Improvement Era'' 1909 on the age of the earth]]
 
# [[Source: Charles W. Penrose in ''Improvement Era'' 1909 on the age of the earth]]
 
# [[Source:James E. Talmage, a geologist, spoke of the earth forming from other bodies]]
 
# [[Question: Was Brigham Young a "young earth creationist"?]]
 
# [[Question: How do dinosaurs fit into God's plan?]]
 

Revision as of 20:35, 26 May 2024

Links to check

  1. Question: Can Latter-day Saints have a non-literal view of the creation story, or have a somewhat more mythic view of the first five books of Moses given the Church's teaching of a historical Adam?
  2. Question: What is the Church's position on Adam and Eve?
  3. Source:First Presidency statement:1931:Leave geology, biology, archaeology and anthropology, no one of which has to do with the salvation of the souls of mankind, to scientific research
  4. Question: How does the Church explain the existence of human-like beings on the earth prior to Adam?